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Scientists unearthed the largest pterosaur found in South America.
Courtesy Leonardo Ortiz David
Flying ‘Dragon of Death’ is the largest pterosaur discovered in South America
a tiny robotic crab invention that is the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot.
Northwestern University
Tiny crab robots are so small they can walk on top of a US penny
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J. Wiemann
A long-standing and fundamental question about dinosaurs may finally have an answer
Dreadnoughtus fight for dominance in the Apple TV+ series 'Prehistoric Planet.'
Apple TV+
‘Prehistoric Planet’ packs a BBC nature series with plenty of dino might
Ghost nannofossils (left) with virtual casts (right). The fossils are approximately 5 µm in length, 15 times narrower than the width of a human hair. Credit: S.M. Slater, P. Bown et al / Science journal.
S.M. Slater, P. Bown et al/Science Journal/London Natural History Museum
Scientists discover ‘ghost’ fossils beneath a microscope
This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider screens. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.   Although we cannot see the event horizon itself, because it cannot emit light, glowing gas orbiting around the black hole reveals a telltale signature: a dark central region (called a shadow) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. The image of the Sgr A* black hole is an average of the different images the EHT Collaboration has extracted from its 2017 observations.  In addition to other facilities, the EHT network of radio observatories that made this image possible includes the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, co-owned and co-operated by ESO is a partner on behalf of its member states in Europe.
European Southern Observatory/EHT Collaboration
New image reveals the ‘gentle giant’ at the heart of the Milky Way
The Deinonychus antirrhopus specimen, excavated in Montana in 2013, dates back to the early Cretaceous period, 115 to 108 million years ago.
Christie's Images Ltd. 2022
Fossils of a dinosaur that inspired ‘Jurassic Park’ sold for over $12 million
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BBC Studios
Fragment of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs may have been found
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Video Game On: ‘Bugsnax,’ ‘Parkasaurus’ and ‘The Stanley Parable’ 1:26
200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.
Jeannette Rüegg/Heinz Furrer/University of Zurich
‘Fish lizard’ fossils found in Swiss Alps belonged to some of the largest creatures that ever lived
Fossilized spider from the Aix-en-Provence Formation in France seen in hand sample overlain with fluorescent microscopy image of the same fossil. Under normal lighting the spider fossil is hard to differentiate from the surrounding rock matrix, but when the fossil is excited by UV-illumination its chemical composition causes it to autofluoresce brightly, revealing additional details of its preservation.
Alison Olcott
Secret of how rare spider fossils formed has been unlocked by scientists
Tupandactylus © Nicholls 2022: Artist's reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-coloured branched feathers.
Bob Nicholls
Pterosaurs were covered with colorful feathers, study says
Open safety deposit box with ostrich egg inside
ColorBlind/Digital Vision/Getty Images
Eggs are a symbol of new life but they also have lots to say about the past
Spinosaurus illustration
Davide Bonadonna
A dinosaur bigger than T. rex swam and hunted its prey underwater
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Video ‘Stan’ the dinosaur has a new home in Abu Dhabi 3:59
Yuxisaurus kopchicki remains included pieces of its skull, jaws, limbs and armor plates.
courtesy Yu Chen
A new armored dinosaur species from the early Jurassic period was discovered in China